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Type: ONA
Episodes: 6
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Oct 24, 2003
Duration:
6 min. per episode Rating:
PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
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StatisticsScore: 6.431 (scored by 3797 users)
Ranked: #47702
Popularity: #1722
Members: 7,652
Favorites: 35 1 indicates a weighted score
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SynopsisThe story takes place in a city where it's said that has thousands of levels.
In a shutdown area, thousands of levels overlap each other, you couldn't tell the sky from the ground and you couldn't tell which way is up or which way is down. Maybe the original purpose of this story is to unravel the mysteries bound in this time and world. For the humans who found this vast rare multi-level city, the mysterious main character "Kirii" wanders to search for the "Net Terminal Genes" that were not infected. Kirii's burden and his search for the "Net Terminal Genes" is a goal like no other and is very much the mystery of this story. Log1~Log6 contains the story of Cibo that wasn't done in the original works. The Cibo who strayed away with Kirii and wanders about. A disc thrown away in the rubble. Cibo starts downloading. Just who's "Memory" will he end up with?
PS: These clips are meant as a bonus to the Manga, and should only be taken as such. Do NOT expect any plot in these. They are merely animated (short) scenes from the Manga.
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Related AnimeAdaptation: BLAME!
Sequel: Blame! Special, Blame! Prologue
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TCHaos
18 of 27 people found this review helpful
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6 of 6 episodes seen
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| Overall |
6 |
| Story |
5 |
| Animation |
8 |
| Sound |
9 |
| Character |
5 |
| Enjoyment |
7 |
This title makes better sense if you have previously read the manga. The OVA jumps back and forth along the manga plot illustrating the key moments of Nihei's (Author of manga) scenic perspective of a chaotic world, so it is very hard for a newcomer to even try to decypher the storyline.
- ANIMATION -
The animation itself is clean and fluid, however many scenes are mere transitional still background frames showing in colour the world of BLAME! but those with movement truely show Nihei's disturbing imagination.
Yet the series' production team was not entirely faithful to his drawing style so the characters are not identical to their manga counterparts.
- SOUND -
The music was an important asset to the OVA, it was the mixture of mechanical/industrial and eerie tunes that really gave the impression of 'desertedness' and the immensity that is the Megastructure cyborg world. It is almost as if you were cast into the darkness of that place and left to wonder what things are lurking in there. The ending themes are varied and on one particular occassion reminded of extracts from Marilyn Manson.
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In terms of the storyline and character development; the fact that the viewer needs prior knowledge of the series limits the score for these categories. It is very hard to see anything coherently with the storyline at first and even the manga needs you to concentrate and re-read certain plots. Yet despite this, its really a bizarre original series.
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I have mixed feelings towards this series, I have read the manga and I believe this really should have been a larger production (full on series). If they followed the manga plot entirely in a more 'user-friendly' manner then it would have really been above the likes of movies such as Matrix or other highly regarded sci-fi/horror/action titles.
Nihei is an awesome author with a vivid sick mind but unfortunately the production team have not done justice to BLAME! OVA as it falls short of really inticing the viewer. It is a shame, since it degrades it into some form of fanservice/promo for the manga instead. read more
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slashed
18 of 28 people found this review helpful
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6 episodes
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| Overall |
6 |
| Story |
1 |
| Animation |
8 |
| Sound |
7 |
| Character |
1 |
| Enjoyment |
6 |
This anime is just a small collections of moving images from the manga really. Thus it is only any fun at all if you've read the manga and loved it.
There is no story to it, though there does seem to be a point to it (it certainly brought something to my attention).
The animation looks good, I liked it.
Since it doesn't show any more then just a few scenes, there's no story of itself whatsoever, character development is non existent and none of it will make any sense to you at all if you haven't thoroughly read the manga and remember every single detail. The manga is my absolute favorite ever and even I had trouble following what was going on at first.
So, watch it if you liked the manga, but leave it if you don't know it or didn't like the manga... read more
Recommendations
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Lain and Blame! are kindred spirits of the extremely trippy kind: machines blending with humanity, dialogues that throw the viewer off, a supra-reality of a cybernetic nature, intense imagery with distorted scenes and deliberate usages of static serve to create a very bizarre environment that takes the meaning of surreal to a whole different level. With this said, Lain is more consistent and offers enough to work on in terms of hermeneutics while Blame! is almost narrative free and extremely confusing.
Blame and Serial Experiments Lain has the same feeling when you watching them.
The main similarities : both have dark /strange/mechanical related atmosphere; both have kinda same 'old' drawing style; the main characters have kinda similar character (if you look deeper in their psychology)
So if you liked this one, i think you probably will like the next one too.
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Ergo Proxy and Blame! are dark and unusual sci-fi titles. Both take place in a post apocalyptic scenario set in the future. A brooding atmosphere serves as the backdrop for the interaction between humans and thinking machines, exploring the thin line between them. Borderline supernatural creatures appear in both as well as living beings employed as powering devices. It should be taken into account, however, that Ergo Proxy is mostly a narrative driven anime that occasionally dips into speculations of a more philosophical kind while Blame! has hardly any plot to speak of and is one of the strangest experiences that any medium has to offer.
both are mindf*cking visions of future world
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